Heredity and Diversity-Life Science Week 2

An instrument for seeing very small objects is called a __________.

• Microscope

• Heredity

• DNA

• Organism

The material that carries DNA and contains the plans for determining an organism's traits.

• Organism

• Chromosomes

• Microscope

• Heredity

Scientists who study heredity have learned that DNA is located in __________.

• Computers

• Playing cards

• Cell chromosomes

• Non-living things

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Which scientific tools were most often used by the earliest scientists?

• Microscopes

• Computers

• Telescopes

• Their five senses

Which scientist made important discoveries about heredity by studying pea plants?

• Gregor Mendel

• James Watson

• Jan Baptist van Helmont

• Carl Wilhelm von Nageli

From his experiments in 1577, Jan Baptist van Helmont believed that moldy grain could grow _________.

• New plants

• Mice

• Pea pods

• A fungus

Which part of a cell contains the DNA, the substance that holds the instructions for building a new organism?

• Roots

• Cell membrane

• Cell walls

• Chromosomes

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What did Friedrich Weismann discover by cutting off tails of 21 generations of mice?

• New generations of mice were not affected and still had tails.

• New generations of mice were born without tails.

• Some generations were born with tails and some without tails.

• Mice do not inherit traits from their parents.

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An __________ is any living thing made up of a cell or cells

• heredity

• organism

• chromosome

• DNA

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__________ is the passing on of traits from parent to offspring.

• DNA

• Organism

• Heredity

• Microscope

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